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    A compiler is a program that translates a program written in one language into an equivalent program in another language. The source language is translated into an intermediate representation that can then be translated into the target language. An interpreter also processes programs but instead of translating to another language, it appears to directly execute the source program. A compiler typically has two main parts - an analysis part that breaks down and analyzes the source code, and a synthesis part that constructs the target program from the intermediate representation.

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    A compiler is a program that translates a program written in one language into an equivalent program in another language. The source language is translated into an intermediate representation that can then be translated into the target language. An interpreter also processes programs but instead of translating to another language, it appears to directly execute the source program. A compiler typically has two main parts - an analysis part that breaks down and analyzes the source code, and a synthesis part that constructs the target program from the intermediate representation.

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    A compiler is a program that translates a program written in one language into an equivalent program in another language. The source language is translated into an intermediate representation that can then be translated into the target language. An interpreter also processes programs but instead of translating to another language, it appears to directly execute the source program. A compiler typically has two main parts - an analysis part that breaks down and analyzes the source code, and a synthesis part that constructs the target program from the intermediate representation.

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    Introduction to Compiler Design

    Introduction to Compiler:
    ⚫Programming languages are notations for describing
    computations to people and to machines. The world as
    we know it depends on programming languages,
    because all the software running on all the computers
    was written in some programming language. But,
    before a program can be run, it first must be translated
    into a form in which it can be executed by a computer.
    ⚫The software systems that do this translation are called
    compilers.
    Language Processor
    a compiler is a program that can read a program in one
    language | the source language | and translate it into an
    equivalent program in another language | the target language
    ⚫If the target program is an executable machine-language program,
    it can then be called by the user to process inputs and produce
    outputs

    ⚫An interpreter is another common kind of language processor. Instead


    of producing a target program as a translation, an interpreter appears to
    directly execute the operations specfied in the source program on
    inputs supplied by the user.
    Example 1.1
    ⚫ Java language processors combine compilation and interpretation, as
    shown in Fig. 1.4. A Java source program may first be compiled into an
    intermediate form called bytecodes.

    The linker resolves


    external memory
    addresses, where the code
    in one file may refer to a
    location in another file.
    The loader then puts
    together all of the
    executable object files into
    memory for execution.
    The Structure of a Compiler
    ⚫ The analysis part breaks up the source program into constituent
    pieces and imposes a grammatical structure on them. It then uses
    this structure to create an intermediate representation of the source
    program.
    ⚫ The analysis part also collects information about the source program
    and stores it in a data structure called a symbol table, which is
    passed along with the intermediate representation to the synthesis
    part.
    ⚫ The synthesis part constructs the desired target program from the
    intermediate representation and the information in the symbol table.
    The analysis part is often called the front end of the compiler; the
    synthesis part is the back end
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